Now, schools have been open for two months.
As well as all of the obvious disruptions, Covid-19 has had a massive impact on our trialling work, delaying or otherwise changing many of the trialling projects we had in the pipeline. As part of our work developing assessments, we undertake a lot of trialling – learners trying out assessments so we can calibrate the assessment content, and obtain feedback from learners and teachers about how the tests work. In the last three years or so, we’ve delivered 25 major trials (and many smaller ones) with over 135,000 learners, and 11 residential marking operations with over 250,000 scripts marked, with more than 75 test administrators and markers. It has been almost 8 months since schools first shut to limit the spread of coronavirus.
